Federal law enforcement officials should be able to go forward with a change to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that would lower the bar for searching computers in cyberspace, the Justice Department is telling Congress.

The comments came from Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney general of the department’s criminal division, in a blog post late Monday. “The amendments do not change any of the traditional protections and procedures under the Fourth Amendment, such as the requirement that the government establish probable cause,” Caldwell said in the post. “Rather, the amendments would merely ensure that at least one court is available to consider whether a particular warrant application comports with the Fourth Amendment.